Monthly Archives: January 2010

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Merge / Diverge. This vibrant, colorful painting is my Merge & Diverge – I hope you like it!!…. The bubbles Merge and then Diverge … it is like much of life – opposites often turn into each other.Â Thank you for this challenge! Here are the entries for the other weekâ€™s Fire / Water. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Sharla of the Beaded Tail Blog has created a lovely list of Friday Features.Â It is a lovely set of items from several artists and artisans. Each image links to that item to purchase and with a link to contact the creator of the product.Â I am delighted to be included in this list!Â Here is this post with Friday Features. I am glad she is inspired by my work! Thank you!

Beaded Tail Friday Features

Here is this vibrant, colorful painting of Lady in Flowers gracing this Friday Features – she can be found in several shops and items – from Art Cards, ACEOs to mugs to tiles to buttons to magnets … you are sure to find Lady in a gift that you will want to get for yourself or for someone special on your list.

You may want to enter my One World One Heart Giveaway – here is the post – it is a free prize with free shipping anywhere in the world.Â This is a worldwide event – details are in this post. Thank YOU for stopping by and reading my blog.

Every week Illustration Friday has a challenge for a specific word. It is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! Anyone can join in with their entry to Illustration Friday. I so much enjoy doing this challenge. This week is Clumsy. This vibrant, colorful painting of Clumsy shows our bubble friends trying a balancing act – oops they got a little Clumsy – oops the fire is right there – Good luck to them! I encourage you to check Illustration Friday out! Lots of fun people and paintings! I know all of our hearts and thoughts go out to the people of Haiti!!

The fourth annual ONE WORLD ONE HEART giveaway starts today!!Â From January 25 to February 15 bloggers around the world will be giving away items.Â This giveaway is WORLDWIDE – one of the requirements is that you MUST be willing to ship (for free) worldwide.Â Last year someone in Australia won my giveaway.

Let’s hear the drumroll … this prize of mine will be whisking off to some place around the globe … are you wondering what it is yet?Â I am pretty sure YOU will be pleased … hopefully YOU will be the one who rides the magic carpet around the world … right into my prize.

The winner will be announced on February 15 – so be sure to leave a comment by February 14 – think of this as a Valentine’s Day gift for yourself (for those of you who celebrate this holiday).Â In order to be eligible, you need to leave me a way to get in touch with you. Your email address is not public – I am the only one who can see it – so it is safe to fill it in.Â Obviously, when YOU win this prize … I will need to be able to let you know.Â I am willing to ship to wherever you are in the world – probably even to outer space if that is where you live … perhaps the magic carpet goes that far!

Drumroll … The prize is a Conundrum I card. It is a 4.25 x 6â€³ blank fine art card that is professionally printed. It comes with an envelope and is enclosed in a clear protective sleeve.Â This is my vibrant colorful painting that many of you say is your favorite – that is why this is the prize.Â I hope you will enter!

There are many bloggers involved (911 in 2009) from many countries from all over the world. Lisa continues “it’s a coming together like the giant community we are on this planet. If only it took a simple giveaway to create PEACE everywhere, in the mean time here we give from our hearts. … KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT…..therefore you must be willing to ship globally should your winner be from out of the country.”

I am very excited that this is international.Â One of my cards with the vibrant, colorful painting Conundrum I is the prize. So some of you from other countries may well join in.Â TheÂ start is today January 25 – this post is the post where your comments will be chosen from.

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Fire / Water. This vibrant, colorful painting is my Fire & Water – I hope you like it!!…. This is sort of like the yin in the yang and the yang in the yin.Â So here we have Fire in the Water and Water in the Fire of the sky …Â Â Like much of life, each thing is included in the opposite.Â Thank you for this challenge! Here are the entries for the other weekâ€™s Push / Pull. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Every week Illustration Friday has a challenge for a specific word. It is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! Anyone can join in with their entry to Illustration Friday. I so much enjoy doing this challenge. This week is Wilderness. This vibrant, colorful painting of Wilderness shows our bubble friends heading off to the Wilderness – Good luck to them!Â I encourage you to check Illustration Friday out! Lots of fun people and paintings! I know all of our hearts and thoughts go out to the people of Haiti!!

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Push / Pull. This vibrant, colorful painting is my Push & Pull – I hope you like it!!…. You can see that these normally quite resilient bubbles are quite stressed as they push and pull to help us this bubble! Â … Here are the entries for the other weekâ€™s Hand / Pink. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

The fourth annual ONE WORLD ONE HEART giveaway will be starting SOON!!Â From January 25 to February 15 bloggers around the world will be giving away items.Â This giveaway is WORLDWIDE – one of the requirements is that you MUST be willing to ship (for free) worldwide.Â Last year someone in Australia won my giveaway.

There are many bloggers involved (911 in 2009) from many countries from all over the world. Lisa continues “it’s a coming together like the giant community we are on this planet. If only it took a simple giveaway to create PEACE everywhere, in the mean time here we give from our hearts. … KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT…..therefore you must be willing to ship globally should your winner be from out of the country.”

I am very excited and plan to participate … and it is international.Â One of my cards with a vibrant, colorful painting will be the prize. So some of you from other countries may well join in.Â It will officially start January 25 – that will be the post that your comments will be chosen from.

Every week Illustration Friday has a challenge for a specific word. It is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! Anyone can join in with their entry to Illustration Friday. I so much enjoy doing this challenge. This week is Confined.Â This vibrant, colorful painting of Confined shows our bubble friends Confined by pyramids and cones – so cruelÂ …Â I encourage you to check Illustration Friday out! Lots of fun people and paintings!Â Here’s to a fantastic New Year for us all!

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Hand / Pink. This vibrant, colorful painting is my Hand & Pink – I hope you like it!!…. I think this is sort of a cool idea – I can see doing more of this in the future … at first I didn’t think I could figure anything out! Â … Here are the entries for the other weekâ€™s Young / Old. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

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